Basketball
- Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group A)
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- Defeated Philippines (91-66)
- Defeated Panama (94-87)
- Defeated Puerto Rico (68-65)
- Defeated Senegal (81-55)
- Lost to Yugoslavia (69-80)
- Lost to United States (61-100)
- Defeated Spain (98-86)
- Classification Matches
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- 5th/8th place: Lost to Poland (52-66)
- 7th/8th place: Lost to Spain (72-88)
- Team Roster
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- Carlo Recalcati
- Giusto Pellanera
- Gianfranco Lombardi
- Enrico Bovone
- Massimo Masini
- Paolo Vittori
- Gabriele Vianello
- Guido Gatti
- Ottorino Flaborea
- Sauro Bufalini
- Massimo Cosmelli
- Gianluigi Jessi
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)